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New Resource on Gumpert

PUBLISHED: December 16, 2006, John Ericson

In 1999 I presented in Paris a session titled “Friedrich Gumpert (1841-1906) and the Performing Technique of the Valved Horn in Late-Nineteenth-Century Germany.” This presentation on one of the most important horn teachers of that century, with many footnotes, is now available in Brass Scholarship in Review: Proceedings of the Historic Brass Society Conference at [...]

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